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What is reflective practice in therapy?
Reflective practice happens when you explore an experience you have had to identify what happened, and what your role in this experience was – including your behaviour and thinking, and related emotions. This allows you to identify changes to your approach for similar future events. Examples of reflective practice An example of reflective practice is an athlete who, after every practice, thinks about what they did well, what they did badly, why they did things the way they did, and what they can do in the future to improve their performance. One of the most famous cyclical models of reflection leading you through six stages exploring an experience: description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan. Reflection is a cyclical process: experience, analysis, implement, repeat. There are three broad types of reflection: Reflections of content, reflections of feeling, & reflections of meaning. Counselors can strengthen their reflections by constructing a reflection that integrates content, process, affect, and meaning.
What is reflective practice and why is it important to the therapist?
In counselling, the aim of reflective practice is personal discovery of one’s own experiential knowledge, which is knowledge gained from reflection-on-action moving an individual to reflection-in-action that requires practice to be able to modify, test, and re-modify in a reflective model in situ (Wong-Wylie, 2006). Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one’s actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning. The 5R framework for reflection will guide you through Reporting, Responding, Relating, Reasoning, and Reconstructing to make sense of a learning experience. Reflecting helps you to develop your skills and review their effectiveness, rather than just carry on doing things as you have always done them. It is about questioning, in a positive way, what you do and why you do it and then deciding whether there is a better, or more efficient, way of doing it in the future.
What is the aim of reflective practice?
Reflection allows you to identify and appreciate positive experiences and better identify ways that you can improve your practice and service delivery. It can also be useful when you have had more challenging experiences; helping you to process and learn from them. Reflective learners They are the ones who, as soon as they have learned something new, want to think and rethink this information. Reflective learners ask questions and think critically about their own previously established ideas. At the same time, reflecting critically is an excellent way to boost critical thinking. Two main types of reflection are often referred to – reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action. Reflection is divided into three types: diffuse, specular, and glossy.
Who benefits from reflective practice?
Being a reflective practitioner benefits people using health and care services by: supporting individual professionals in multi-disciplinary team work. fostering improvements in practice and services. assuring the public that health and care professionals are continuously learning and seeking to improve. Reflective practice is ‘learning through and from experience towards gaining new insights of self and practice’ (Finlay, 2008). Reflection is a systematic reviewing process for all teachers which allows you to make links from one experience to the next, making sure your students make maximum progress. Reflective thinking gives you true perspective. Puts an experience into perspective – small stuff of life, a crisis, an irritation or a great event to savor forever. For example, thinking/reflecting on a vacation helps make memories. Without reflecting on something, memories are not made. In reflection, the listener tries to clarify and restate what the other person is saying. 1) It can increase the listener’s understanding of the other person. 2) It can help the other to clarify their thoughts. 3) It can reassure the other that someone is willing to attend to his or her point of view and wants to help. The literature commonly refers to the following as being the skills required of reflective practice: self awareness, description, critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation (Atkins & Murphy, 1994). The top 5 barriers to reflective practice were “Lack of time” (n=73, 68.9%); “Lack of training” (n=44, 41.5%); “Lack of guidance” (n=39, 36.8%); “Lack of knowledge” (n=38, 35.8%); and “Not supported by organizational culture” (n=37, 34.9%).
What are reflective practice tools?
There are different tools and methods for reflective learning. Common tools include: learning journals, diaries, log books and personal blogs – your thoughts in written prose. lists, bullet points, tables – your thoughts summarised in note form. audiovisual recordings – documenting your voice or using video recordings. Reflective thinking is a form of critical thinking that reflects on experiences and learnings. This thinking process, popularized by U.S. philosopher John Dewey’s How We Think book, requires intense introspection and can improve decision-making and problem-solving processes. It allows you to recognize your own strengths and weakness, and use this to guide on-going learning. By reflection you will develop your skills in self-directed learning, improve motivation, and improve the quality of care you are able to provide. Some common synonyms of reflect are cogitate, deliberate, reason, speculate, and think. While all these words mean to use one’s powers of conception, judgment, or inference, reflect suggests unhurried consideration of something recalled to the mind.
What are the 3 aspects of reflective practice?
Recognise, reflect, resolve: The benefits of reflecting on your practice. Reflection allows you to identify and appreciate positive experiences and better identify ways that you can improve your practice and service delivery. It can also be useful when you have had more challenging experiences; helping you to process and learn from them. Being a reflective practitioner benefits people using health and care services by: supporting individual professionals in multi-disciplinary team work. fostering improvements in practice and services. assuring the public that health and care professionals are continuously learning and seeking to improve. Reflecting on what has been learned makes experience more productive. Reflection builds one’s confidence in the ability to achieve a goal (i.e., self-efficacy), which in turn translates into higher rates of learning. Reflective practice allows the Counsellor to do their job to the highest standards. It ensures that they don’t waste time on methods that don’t work and that they repeat methods that do. Another benefit is that the Counsellor is able to self-assess their working methods and apply improvements where necessary. Have you ever missed the bus and then thought next time I’ll leave the house 5 minutes earlier’? This is an example of you being reflective: you thought about an experience and decided to learn from it and do something different the next time. As a student, and in the workplace, you will be asked to be reflective.